ILA Best Thesis and Best Poster Awards at NLS-08:

Best Thesis awards: Everey year, M/s Laser Spectra Services, Bangalore sponsors the BEST THESIS award at National Laser Symposium.

Best thesis awards for 2008 was awarded to:

1. Demonstration of a broadband source based on a filter-less fiber laser
   DEEPA VENKITESH1,2 and R.VIJAYA1
   1 Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076
   2 VES College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Sindhi Society, Chembur, Mumbai 400071
   Corresponding Author email : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2. Studies on Thin Films and Quantum Structures of ZnO Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition
   PANKAJ MISRA*
   Laser Materials Processing Division
   Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452 013
   *email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3. Fabrication and Characterization of Dye Sensitized Polymer Films for Holographic Applications
   Beena Mary John*
   Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala-682 022, INDIA
   * email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
4. Study of Autoionization and Rydberg States of Europium Atom By Laser Photoionization Spectroscopy
   Soumen Bhattacharyya
   Spectroscopy Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,
   email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Best Poster awards: From 2006 onwards M/s Laser Science, Mumbai sponsors these awards.

Best Poster awards for 2008 was awarded to:

1. Development of a compact 100Hz XeCl (308 nm) Excimer Laser
   N.S.BENERJI* , N.VARSHNAY, AND J.K.MITTAL
   Chemical and Excimer Laser Section
   Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore-452013, M.P
   *Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2. Effect of photonic stop band on the emission of Rhodamine dye
   SUNITA KEDIA1, R.VIJAYA1*, A.K. RAY2 AND SUCHARITA SINHA2
   1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
   2Laser and Plasma Technology division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai 400085, India
   *Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3. Laser micro-welding of Brachytherapy assembly having high dose rate source
   B. N. Upadhyaya1*, M. K. Mishra2, S. C. Vishwakarma1, R. K. Jain1, A. Choubey1, D. K. Agrawal1,
   D. N. Badodkar2, Manjit Singh2, K.V.S. Sastry3, B. N. Patil3, S.M.Oak1
   1Solid State Laser Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore-452013
   2DRHR, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
   3Board of Radiation and Isotope Technology, Mumbai
   *E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
4. Highly collimated and mono-energetic electron beam from laser wakefield electron acceleration
   B. S. Rao, A. Moorti, P. A. Naik, R. K. Bhat, and P. D. Gupta
   Laser Plasma Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore-452013
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5. Control of laser induced molecular fragmentation using chirped ultrafast laser pulses:
   Tapas Goswami*, S. K. Karthick Kumar and Debabrata Goswami
   Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP - 208016, India
   *E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
6. Single Channel LRF for Airborne Defence Platforms
   SUSHIL KUMAR, SHAILENDRA SINGH YADAV, NIRAJ BHARGAVA, SP GABA
   Instrument Research and Development Establishment, Dehradun - 248008, INDIA
   Email: {sushil, shailendra, nbhargava, spgaba}@irde.res.in